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Choosing a movie?


Don’t trust these extremely abbreviated plot explanations.

The Shining: A family’s first Airbnb experience goes very wrong.

The Lord of the Rings: Group spends nine hours returning jewelry.

Titanic: Everyone tries the ice-bucket challenge.

Beauty and the Beast: Stockholm syndrome works.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Kid comes out of the closet.

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Titanic (97)
A selfish woman dooms her boytoy because she refuses to scoot over

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Enemy at the Gates (01)
Cranky Russians show no hospitality towards German travellers and there is a big brouhaha

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Rocky IV (85)
A thug from Philly ends the Cold War by using montages

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Drive (11)
A mute guy learns to speak a little bit when he meets a cute girl

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Days of Thunder (90)
A group of hicks learn that driving very quickly can cause catastrophe

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Gremlins (84)
A hard working man learns that shopping in Chinatown is a terrible idea after his neighborhood is destroyed

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Inception: Guy is dreaming that he’s awake in a dream then he falls asleep and dreams that he wakes up in the dream and then he dreams that he’s sleeping and dreaming of a dream.

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LOL!
Perfect synopsis of a movie that made NO damned sense!!
Its also possible that im stupid, but c'mon!!!

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Well that would make two of us.

First time I saw it at the theatre when it finished I asked my friends who was the Chinese guy in the end and they all looked at me like I was stupid.

Then I re-watched it at home later on and Although I find it a bit more entertaining I still failed to really get the gist of it

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The Road Warrior (81)
A crusty drifter neglects his dog, drives well over the speed limit and murders a bunch of homeless people

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